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JOURNAL 
Marshall/ 1964 Lisianski Is. 
Aug . 20 cont. 
with Merrill about the duties and responsibility of GS-5 
personnel with respect to the project. Afterword had long takk 
with Whitman about it which calmed ne enough to be able to 
go to sleep. In bed 12:30. 
August 21 Up at 7:00/ to eat finish packing and leave ship. 
At this point all leadership is breaking down for want of a 
strong leader. Everyone except Paul is pissed at me for being 
a bossy loudmouth uppidy GS-5, not without reason, but someone 
has to make the decisions. This morning I decided that my 
capacity as an advisor was no longer needed and I resolved to 
let Ken make decisons. I tried to talk to Ken about it, was 
disappointed in both things. This experience is becoming very 
depressing for me. We arrived at Lisianski at 9:30am. The 
sea was still eiry still, so still that when on land we could 
lay in the water and still see the water line of the ship, over 
a mile away. The island was hot, heavily vegetated, and swarming 
with flies. We split up into two teams to survey the shore and ' 
island, arriving back at the camp about noon. We had the 
usual'controversy over fishballs, then went out to the area behind 
the camp to band Sooty terns. We banded 400 among, us, then Paul 
went out and finished the Tropic—bird string and banded several 
Booby while the rest of us saught refuge from the flies in the 
water. Later we went out and finish 41-100 of the last Frigate 
string. I found and caught a red tagged 'Sooty Tern, number 
753-23764. That night we slept till 11:45 and then went to 
do 2500 Sooty terns. Paul did 100 Bonin Is. Petrels, of which 
there were thousands on the island, but very hard to find at night. 
A1 and I did 61 Booby, finding many returns. (Paul had done 
100 Wedgetails while we were asleep) In the early am I found and 
captured a most extraordinary bird, an ALBINO SOOTY TERN. 
I carried it in my shirt until I finished banding, then took 
it back to camp where i made a cage for it. After this I worked 
catching fish for it. In bed at about 6q 00 am morning of the 
22nd. 
August 22 Up early after about 2 hours of blessed sleep because 
of into 11 erab 1 e- flys. Alan and I banded 500 Sooty tern, chicks, 
and Ken, Paul and Dick did 1000 among them. The two Alans 
helped me catch fish for our captives, which now included a 
partial albino Sooty brought in by Dick. Boat in at noon with 
sight seers, food, Doug, and fish ball hunters. Spent rest*of, , 
day trying to avoid the blasted flies. We started banding right 
after dark ina frantic effort to use up the last of our 10000 no. 
3 bands. Alan and I went back to the same place we had been befre 
and banded 1000 Sooty, and 100 Wedgetail. Ken and Dick banded 
1500 Sooty, and Paul did 300 Wedgetails. We all finished at 
1:00am mourning of the23rd. 
August 23 Paul went out again with his characteristic stamina 
and banded another 100 Bonin island Petrels. I went along the shore 
and caught 30 more fish. The rest went to sleep. Paul and I 
returned to camp at 3:30 am, figuring on a quike snooz before 
we had to get up at 4;00 and take down the camp. We all over ’ 
slept till 5:30 when we were awakened by Doug and the boat. 
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